I'm new to the PostgreSQL community so please pardon what is probably a
silly question ...

I'm in the process of porting Informix ESQL to PostgreSQL. I
occasionally get sqlcode = 100 and sqlstate = 02000 when declaring
cursors or freeing prepared statements. Is this normal? For example:

$declare loop1 cursor with hold for
select distinct ( tabname )
from meta ;

results in sqlca.sqlcode = 100 and sqlca.sqlstate = '02000'
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On Aug 29, 2005, at 2:19 PM, andy rost wrote:

> I'm new to the PostgreSQL community so please pardon what is
> probably a silly question ...
>
> I'm in the process of porting Informix ESQL to PostgreSQL. I
> occasionally get sqlcode = 100 and sqlstate = 02000 when declaring
> cursors or freeing prepared statements. Is this normal? For example:
>
> $declare loop1 cursor with hold for
> select distinct ( tabname )
> from meta ;
>
> results in sqlca.sqlcode = 100 and sqlca.sqlstate = '02000'

Andy,

According to the docs, a positive value of sqlcode indicates a
harmless condition:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/s...pg-errors.html

The sqlstate of 02000 looks like the NO DATA code:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/s...-appendix.html

I don't see anything wrong with your cursor declaration, so this just
looks like it's indicating that no rows were returned.

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On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 09:01:36AM -0500, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote:
> On Aug 29, 2005, at 2:19 PM, andy rost wrote:
> >
> > $declare loop1 cursor with hold for
> > select distinct ( tabname )
> > from meta ;
> >
> >results in sqlca.sqlcode = 100 and sqlca.sqlstate = '02000'
>
> [snip]
>
> I don't see anything wrong with your cursor declaration, so this just
> looks like it's indicating that no rows were returned.

See my response to the same thread in pgsql-sql about what's
happening:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql...8/msg00274.php

The ECPG code generator doesn't issue the DECLARE statement until
the cursor is opened, so checking sqlcode/sqlstate immediately after
DECLARE but before OPEN will get the error code values from a
previous command.

Here's an excerpt from the DECLARE documentation:

The PostgreSQL server does not implement an OPEN statement for
cursors; a cursor is considered to be open when it is declared.
However, ECPG, the embedded SQL preprocessor for PostgreSQL,
supports the standard SQL cursor conventions, including those
involving DECLARE and OPEN statements.

Since declaring a cursor in PostgreSQL also opens it, ECPG apparently
defers doing anything with the cursor until it finds the OPEN
statement (i.e., EXEC SQL DECLARE generates no code, and EXEC SQL
OPEN generates a DECLARE).

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Just so that we can snip this thread, we've confirmed that free cursor
and free statement do not affect sqlca structure elements sqlcode and
sqlstate.

Michael Fuhr wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 09:01:36AM -0500, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote:
>
>>On Aug 29, 2005, at 2:19 PM, andy rost wrote:
>>
>>> $declare loop1 cursor with hold for
>>> select distinct ( tabname )
>>> from meta ;
>>>
>>>results in sqlca.sqlcode = 100 and sqlca.sqlstate = '02000'
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>I don't see anything wrong with your cursor declaration, so this just
>>looks like it's indicating that no rows were returned.
>
>
> See my response to the same thread in pgsql-sql about what's
> happening:
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql...8/msg00274.php
>
> The ECPG code generator doesn't issue the DECLARE statement until
> the cursor is opened, so checking sqlcode/sqlstate immediately after
> DECLARE but before OPEN will get the error code values from a
> previous command.
>
> Here's an excerpt from the DECLARE documentation:
>
> The PostgreSQL server does not implement an OPEN statement for
> cursors; a cursor is considered to be open when it is declared.
> However, ECPG, the embedded SQL preprocessor for PostgreSQL,
> supports the standard SQL cursor conventions, including those
> involving DECLARE and OPEN statements.
>
> Since declaring a cursor in PostgreSQL also opens it, ECPG apparently
> defers doing anything with the cursor until it finds the OPEN
> statement (i.e., EXEC SQL DECLARE generates no code, and EXEC SQL
> OPEN generates a DECLARE).
>

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National Weather Service, NOAA
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Voice: (952)361-6610 x 234
Fax: (952)361-6634
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